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Amazon's AI Coding Agent Was Hacked - Update Now to Avoid Possible Risks, Users Warned

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Amazon forced to remove older version of Q Developer Extension due to malicious code injection – so users should update now.

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Amazon's coding AI assistant exposed nearly a million users to a risk of complete erasure of the system, the hacker said he wanted to reveal Amazon's lax security practicesA hacker recently revealed that he had compromised the Amazon Q code generation AI tool. The attacker managed to inject unauthorized code into the assistant's open source repository on GitHub. This code included instructions that, if they had been triggered with...

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iTnews broke the news in on Monday, July 28, 2025.
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